Latest content: Elections and Promoting Democracy

Lifting the quality and strengthening the relevance of election management bodies is a continuing work-in-progress: to learn and apply the lessons from each election and rise to the emergence of new challenges, including evolving information and communication technologies and increasing demands for greater transparency and integrity.
Election Management: A Compendium of Commonwealth Good Practice is designed to provide policy makers and staff of election management bodies with a guide to the democratic values, principles and practices of the Commonwealth, which should be reflected in the work they do to consolidate and deepen democracy in their countries.

The Report of the Commonwealth Observer Group for the Kenya elections, held 4 March 2013.

The Report of the Commonwealth Observer Group for the Ghana Presidential and Parliamentary elections, held 7 December 2012.

The Report of the Commonwealth Observer Group for the Sierra Leone National and Local Council Elections, held 17 November 2012.

The Report of the Commonwealth Observer Group for the Papua New Guinea National Elections, held June–July 2012.

The Report of the Commonwealth Expert Team for The Gambia Presidential Election, held on 24 November 2011.

The Report of the Commonwealth Observer Group for Guyana’s National and Regional Elections, held on 28 November 2011.

The Report of the Commonwealth Expert Team for the Cameroon Presidential Elections, held on 9 October 2011.

The Report of the Commonwealth Observer Group for the Rwanda Presidential elections.

The media plays a crucial role in ensuring that elections are conducted fairly, and are seen to be credible.